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Okay, I know that WTF tend to change colors, but is this a "several times a day" thing? My Cartman (WTF) is Green in the AM, and usually a healthy looking brown in the evening. He eats his crickets, and is very inventive w/ his style in doing this. He loves his little water dish, and bathes in it..he seems happy. I try not to handle him too much, but he is sooo cute!! I just love him!

I moved him into a 20 gallon tank and put fresh substrate and put a "jungle" paper up on 3 sides of the tank which he appears to love, so he has some scenery, I will be getting some "WTF safe" plants to add in there, but I am wondering... I can't get the humidity down below 70%.. I've put dry substrate in (use bed a beast..and let it dry before putting it in). I dont' have the H2O bowl on the heating pad side...and I don't mist, being the humidity is so high already... his temp is great.. steady 78degrees - 80 during the day..and a tad bit lower at night... I have 1 "pet store" plastic plant..and its small, and I dried it out completely before putting it in..not sure what the issue is w/ humidity.

I have one more concern..the guy I bought my larger tank from, he owns a huge reptile/amphibian store where I live, he told me to feed my little WTF 20 crickets per day!!!!! He usually eats 3 or 4..and he's good... I've never heard anyone tell me to feed them that much.. what do you all say? I had been feeding him 4 - 5 every few days, but now feed him 2 one day, 3 the next.. am I over or underfeeding him???

want him to be happy...

Frog429

Are you sure he didnt mean 20 per week! They could probably eat 20 per day if you let them,but theyd youd have an insanely obese frog! the frog souds very happy. i wouldnt worry about the color changing, my frogs change all the time. usually theyre a nice limey green, or in my blue whites case blue during the AM, and go to brown at night when theyre soaking or hunting. the humidity is actually ok. i wouldnt worry about it much unless the frog gets a cut,then it can get infected with high humidity. well,good luck!

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I think this guy had one to many hits from the "snake".. I also think he doesn't know his frogs. I returned to Petsmart for my froggie supplies. I am sticking to my 3-5 crickets ever other day rule... He's so cute!! I did have to take out a "driftwood" thing I got for him..he hides away in there during the day, and I never see him, so I replaced it w/ a very leafy vine..(yes, its ec0-terra product)..and he loves it!

Should I be concerned that he's tried to get out of his cage once or twice?? Is his 10 gallon tank to small?? (I thought it was 20, but its 10..and tall)..

Jess